Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FULWOOD

FULWOOD, a village and a chapelry in Sheffield parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands in a vale, under Hallam Moors, 4 miles WSW of Sheffield r. station; and carries on steel and cutlery manufactures. The chapelry was constituted in 1849; and its post town is Sheffield. Pop., 1,801. Houses, 368. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of York. Value, £100. Patron, Miss Silcock. The church was built in 1838. There are an Independent chapel and an endowed school.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a village and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Sheffield CP/AP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Fulwood

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